The Doctor sat in his study chair, covering his face with his hands.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Then dashed they on his shaggy chest Clubs, maces, fragments of the rock: He moved not once, nor felt the shock.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Is it just to give him as his sole credentials certain private signs, performed in the presence of a few obscure persons, signs which everybody else can only know by hearsay?
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I am apt to think the Petticoat will shrink of its own accord at your first coming to Town; at least a Touch of your Pen will make it contract it self, like the sensitive Plant, and by that means oblige several who are either terrified or astonished at this portentous Novelty, and among the rest, Your humble Servant, &c. C. Footnote 1: Love in a Tub , Act iv, sc, 6. return to footnote mark Footnote 2: In Plutarch's Life of him.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

His sister commenced cutting the neck part, from which the neck had been severed.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

These are the ordinary practices; yet in the said Lucian, Melissa methinks had a trick beyond all this; for when her suitor came coldly on, to stir him up, she writ one of his co-rival's names and her own in a paper, Melissa amat Hermotimum, Hermotimus Mellissam , causing it to be stuck upon a post, for all gazers to behold, and lost it in the way where he used to walk; which when the silly novice perceived, statim ut legit credidit , instantly apprehended it was so, came raving to me, &c. [5133] and so when I was in despair of his love, four months after I recovered him again.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Mathematicos : after many philosophical arguments and reasons pro and con that there are gods, and again that there are no gods, he so concludes, cum tot inter se pugnent, &c. Una tantum potest esse vera , as Tully likewise disputes: Christians say, they alone worship the true God, pity all other sects, lament their case; and yet those old Greeks and Romans that worshipped the devil, as the Chinese now do, aut deos topicos , their own gods; as Julian the apostate,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

She trusted to Major Dobbin as an accountant, took his somewhat confused calculations for granted, and never once suspected how much she was in his debt.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The Litigation for recovery of money spent on Cecilia while she remained with us went on of course; and the other day almost, the Master made Report against Mr. Piozzi, who, he said, could compel no payment, but y t Mostyn must be a strange man (was his expression,) to endeavour so at squeezing his wife's necessary expenses out of a Father-in-law's pocket; and added—"I can tell you, gentlemen, that had you come to me as John Wilmot, not as Master in Chancery, I should have decided very differently indeed."
— from The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821 by Penelope Pennington

He laughed, sweeping aside her sweet charitable concern that was so superfluous.
— from Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution by Rafael Sabatini

The crumbs ought to be swept up more often in the dining-room, he says; crumbs cause the flies to multiply, he says."
— from In the World by Maksim Gorky

Lee, on the other hand, by means of his superior cavalry, could reconnoitre the position at his leisure, and if he disc
— from Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by G. F. R. (George Francis Robert) Henderson

Round her memory clustered all the noblest purposes and purest motives of his life, [Pg 111] and in her spirit seemed to be reflected the divinest truth, the loftiest wisdom, that the human soul could comprehend.
— from Dante: Six Sermons by Philip H. (Philip Henry) Wicksteed

Four days after crossing the river, General Hull sent Colonels Cass and Miller, with a detachment of two hundred and eighty men, towards Malden.
— from The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley

The humor of the passage just quoted from How Santa Claus Came to Simpson’s Bar , the humor that made Bret Harte famous, and still more the humor that made him beloved, was not saturnine or satirical, but sympathetic and tender.
— from The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers by Henry Childs Merwin

" Thus far the letter: the wish of the prudent mother was fulfilled; her son returned, as she had so cautiously charged him to do, to Frankfort; he married the maiden of her choice, and they lived together forty years in happy matrimony.
— from Pictures of German Life in the XVth, XVIth, and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. by Gustav Freytag